Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] he [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distrust which Dicey felt concerning this tendency of party government to destroy the balance of parliamentary institutions caused him to advocate the use of various institutional control devices . |
| 2 | Phil said how much he enjoyed the day , and how breaking his own sales barriers allowed him to break the sound barrier . |
| 3 | Back in civvy street he landed a job at the Strand Cornerhouse in London ; from there a number of jobs with skilled confectioners allowed him to accumulate the experience needed to go it alone . |
| 4 | The fact that the firms allowed him to use the money for his own purposes and replace it was merely an indulgence . |
| 5 | Pillai 's insistence on specialising in commercial affairs enabled him to avoid the sort of tough political decisions — such as suppressing Congress — which the generalists in provincial postings were forced to implement . |
| 6 | These principles enabled him to develop the BBC as an instrument for the achievement of excellence and for the delivery of the ‘ best of everything ’ . |
| 7 | SINGER-AND-SONGWRITER Channi Singh had a dream come true when one of Bombay 's biggest movie moguls asked him to pen the music for a multi-million pound cinema extravaganza , writes Michael Tarat . |
| 8 | Some of Hugo 's drunken friends told him to let the hounds chase her , and so he ran from the house and unlocked the dogs . |
| 9 | Since his privateering interests encouraged him to favour the continuance of war , they may have balanced the pension from Spain in forming his attitude to the peace negotiations . |
| 10 | When one of the police asked him to quieten the party down a bit , Willis hit him in the mouth and screamed , ‘ Get the fuck off my property ! ’ |
| 11 | The magistrates ordered him to control the animal in future . |
| 12 | As opinion polls and other reports showed de Gaulle 's support slipping — from a high of sixty-nine per cent before the campaign to forty-three per cent on the eve of the elections — his advisers and ministers urged him to enter the fray . |
| 13 | All the boy 's instincts told him to throw the money back at the policeman , their natural enemy , but his little brothers ' faces changed his mind . |
| 14 | He said he would now wait to see if Darlington firemen wanted him to take the matter to the home office . |